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Receive push notifications from your rice cooker

@edentHomeAssistant IoT SmartHome · 6 comments · 500 words · read ~6,572 times.

Android alert telling me that the rice is ready.

I have a lovely, and reasonably priced, Mini Panda Rice Cooker. It does not have any SmartHome features. You put in water and rice, press a button, it cooks rice. Nice! The only problem is - I don't know how long the rice will take to cook. It uses "Fuzzy Logic" to work out exactly how much heat and time is needed for perfect fluffy rice. This is inconvenient. I cannot always hear the beep the machine makes when it completes its culinary wizardry. So let's hook it up to the Internet of…

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Review: Matter-enabled Energy Monitoring Smart Plugs - Meross 315

@edentHomeAssistant IoT Meross SmartHome · 5 comments · 500 words · read ~977 times.

Matter is coming to fix all your smarthome woes! A single IoT standard, working across multiple radio protocols, bringing together different products from many different manufacturers. And… it works! Mostly These are the Meross 315 Smart Plugs. They are small(ish), cheap(ish), and easy(ish) to use. As soon as I plugged them in, before even configuring them, my home went crazy. I got a pop-up on my phone asking if I wanted to control them with Google Home. Nope! I then immediately got a…

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